Internal Supervisors

Biography

Currently the Founder and Director of Nigeria’s Political Violence Research Network responsible for the team of 11 people

Director of Research Documentary on the Conflict in Northern Nigeria, Responsible for a team of 4 people

PhD Research

The research attempts to shift the study of political violence and Islamic radicalization in northern Nigeria away from the traditional approaches of the theory of modernization, the political economy of conflicts theory and the theory of external dependency. Such an attempt is characterized by the fact that these traditional theories were investigated before 1999 and were heavily linked to Nigeria’s oil boom of the 70s and the subsequent military dictatorship. However, the new approach adopts the social movement theory which asserts that societies naturally develop internal mechanisms with organized resistance structures, no matter how loose, to make demands on the government. Failure to respond adequately to these demands generates frustration and violence. This new approach examines political violence and the rise of Boko Haram within the context of Nigeria’s return to multiparty democracy in 1999 and the failure of socio-economic and political reforms. It further analysis how and why the Boko Haram uprising is located within the north-eastern region of the country, though with national, regional and a likely global consequences.

Publications

Publications

''Colonial Legacies and ‘Post-Military Rule’ Soldiers in Nigeria. Why the Nigerian military, on its own, did not defeat Boko Haram'' Journal for Modern African Studies, Forthcoming

Violent Conflict in Divided Societies. The Case Study of Violent Conflict in Taraba State (2013 - 2015), published by Open Doors International.

Nigeria's Counter-Terrorism Threats and Analysis, forthcoming in International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research, Singapore Journal

Join the Caravan”: The Ideology of Political Authority in Islam from Ibn Taymiyya to Boko Haram in North-Eastern Nigeria. Terrorism Perspectives 7(3):30-42.

The Ideological Evolution of Boko Haram in Nigeria: Merging Local Salafism and International Jihadism’’. The RUSI Journal, 158(4):46-53.